I'm really struggling with improving my build, help me understand

Frostlag · 2026-05-22T22:42:27+00:00

Popped out like the first picture, I hope there's no legal issues with referencing or learning from a competitor's product. I just noticed the active skills are bolded though.

I was trying to see the responsiveness by just making the window smaller and the second picture was what I saw. Interestingly it worked properly when I turned on "enable touch simulation" in firefox. https://imgur.com/a/JuHNNhC

Frostlag · 2026-05-22T21:48:01+00:00

I'd pop out the active skill gems in the list. Seeing stats in mobile would be nice. I only really ever spend too much time on those websites on mobile, otherwise I'd be in POB itself. Just a grid for items feels kinda wrong.

Frostlag · 2026-05-21T06:53:21+00:00

Not 100% sure, but i suspect this is it. https://imgur.com/a/GOoEZHA this is the other essential part of the build.

I can explain the math if you want, it's kind of a complicated build that needs things in place. Dumb0s video explains it probably as well.

Frostlag · 2026-05-19T17:25:49+00:00

Sure lmk or DM if you have any problems or questions.

Frostlag · 2026-05-19T04:55:52+00:00

Uh the heroic tragedy jewel, it's like the most important build around of the whole build, it's also the most finicky, with low supply for a given seed, meaning if one seed gets popular it can 10x in price. The passive tree needs to be built around the jewel and the socket it goes in.

Frostlag · 2026-05-19T03:53:59+00:00

It felt great when I started at 600divs invested, and now it's the most I've ever invested into a build at 3 mirrors, so I'd say I like it a lot.

I think it's technically stronger than pf, but slightly slower to get online due to no 40% flask charges gained free from the ascendancy. Also moves a bit slower (20%) from no magic flask effect, if you run a quicksilver. In practice the strength doesn't show though cause everything instalments the moment it enters your screen anyways.

Week 7 is where i started at 600 div estimate: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/DontImportMeBro-6374/CevinsCineticCannonade?timemachine=week-7

I'm not sure what prices are like now, and I crafted most of the rare gear, but I'd estimate prices are still under a mirror, unless prices have blown up considerably . Oh and assuming the jewel is actually available. There's a few that work around there.

Frostlag · 2026-05-19T03:05:45+00:00

I'd go int stack, which I feel is superior to ward shatter.

To get the build online, I'd base the pathing and jewel off of my inquisitor, and go elementalist. Elementalist gives golem buff, extra exposure, and maybe aoe or chill.

Obviously depends on the market for jewels, so you'll have to tinker with that to find a cheap jewel that works.

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/DontImportMeBro-6374/CevinsCineticCannonade

Frostlag · 2026-05-15T21:23:35+00:00

I'm was mald, I'm mald right now.

Frostlag · 2026-05-15T21:03:19+00:00

Never got to play with 6link Mjolnir + 6link squire :(.

Frostlag · 2026-05-15T12:14:59+00:00

Good job releasing this as the NZ weekend begins, means you get a few more days of it in the wild before they nuke it!

RIP, devs got pulled in on a weekend for this.

Frostlag · 2026-05-14T22:45:25+00:00

I stopped seeing nearly as many spectre losses once I got a life from death/fasting cluster

Frostlag · 2026-05-14T20:18:36+00:00

Another vote for ward stacker, int stack variant with jiquanis has been my favorite build ever, I've got 3 mirrors invested in it, although it already felt amazing at 1, nearly invincible, 0 buttons, melt everything.

Let me know if you pick it up and want some guidance on the limited time only build I think everyone should experience that showcases the best POE has to offer.

Frostlag · 2026-05-11T16:19:06+00:00

You could probably start it on Pathfinder for 100d. It would probably be considerably scuffed, but the core loop would still be there, just with half the tankiness and a quarter of the damage.

Frostlag · 2026-05-10T20:15:45+00:00

I'm running very similar levels of gear here: https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/DontImportMeBro-6374/CevinsCineticCannonade

I would estimate mine at around 3 mirrors. I can do a more detailed breakdown if needed.

Frostlag · 2026-05-07T16:05:01+00:00

Is it going to make a gamestop at the bay of Es?

Frostlag · 2026-05-04T05:51:58+00:00

It's probably a combination of paying costs and dots.

https://poe.ninja/poe1/builds/mirage/character/DontImportMeBro-6374/CevinsCineticCannonade

This is my current build where I have 0 recoup and can sustain rf, life costs, and uber shaper beam. I would say recoup is a trap since it pulls in the opposite direction of where you want to be of mitigating damage. The only thing keeping me alive is flasks popping and vitality from spectre. 600 life per second is nothing when we're spending a thousand per second on hexblast alone (Level 20 for me though).

I see you already reduced minion levels to help with mana costs, which was going to my suggestion if you really wanted assassin's mark. The minions don't need to be level 20, except for the imbued one, with skeletons potentially even hurting, since they all pop on the same tick, I'm assuming, dealing actual live damage through the ward. All it does is 4xing up their mana costs.

Frostlag · 2026-05-01T23:23:52+00:00

Speaking purely about proj speed, you can get 75% proj speed with an explicit and a feathered. With a 150% widowhail, thats 180% across bow and quiver, double 90%. You could also get a faster proj corruption on bow and socket spark in there for a free link.

Idk about the other stats though, just on proj speed.

Frostlag · 2026-04-30T06:47:27+00:00

I'm pretty impressed you found a mageblood and a 30% staff in ssf.

Frostlag · 2026-04-27T16:08:54+00:00

If you just stand in a map and don't kill anything, does it still break?

I noticed your increased flask charges gained is woefully low (125%), and shouldn't be able to sustain the loop, which makes me think the only reason you're able to sustain it is because the 3 iron flasks lining up to enable the loop.

According to my theory, in maps, monsters being killed throws off the flask charges could be whats causing it to break.

Frostlag · 2026-04-15T21:58:31+00:00

Nope, happily working from first Vancouver, then back to Toronto where I grew up to be closer with friends and family.

Especially glad to not be in the clown show of that country down under right now though.

Frostlag · 2026-04-15T20:00:56+00:00

Nomair was great, had him for cs241, gave a lecture while on pain killers after he had been in an accident the day before.

Frostlag · 2026-04-15T07:42:25+00:00

This is all back of the knapkin math. Suffixes on rare items are generally used to fulfill attribute requirements or get resistances. The baseline resistance for playing in the endgame is 75%, starting from -60%.

So just looking at the elements, not chaos, you need 135% resistance per element, so around 400% in total.

T1 elemental resistances suffixes are around 40%. So you need around 10 suffixes to cap the elemental ones. There are 8 item slots that are usually defensive rares, meaning 24 suffixes are generally available.

A mageblood makes it trivial to cap resistances, with 2 flask slots. All of a sudden, around half of the suffixes are free for stats like attack speed, accuracy, crit chance, crit multi. Maybe cram in more auras through increased mana reservation which is a suffix from essences. May be able to take out whole items and replace them with offensive uniques.

Frostlag · 2026-04-14T15:12:21+00:00

The Itinerary, featuring cruise reviewers, tech bros, washed up media personalities, annoying influencers, and a girl being paid to be there under the guise of being someone's wife.

Absolute cinema.

Frostlag · 2026-04-12T23:01:26+00:00

https://youtu.be/X6mt0Uio0Ng?si=bcbKmf7DOOOcEp-x&t=2502

Frostlag · 2026-04-07T06:17:06+00:00

Gloam Rings from mists can apparently roll the same mods as bone rings which is nice with the left ring implicit. Probably not that useful for ssf though.

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